SEPTEMBER 27.1945
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE SEVEN
Campus Loses Its Wartime Military Atmosphere
Only Upperclassmen Can Remember the Beat of Marching Feet
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Reconverting to peacetime pursuits, the University already has lost much of its military atmosphere. Time was when soldier and sailor students would compete with each other for the night of way on the crowded campus street. Now most of the khaki has disappeared and only 1993 Y.103.
283 V-12's who walk sedately-to classes like other students now remain.
Now that the ratio of civilian to military men students is approaching its pre-war level, only the upper-classmen remember those street marching scenes.
Six months after Pearl Harbor, on July 13, 1942, the first navy unit arrived at the University. This group, fresh from an intensive six-week boot camp at the Great Lake Naval Training station, began a four-month training course to fit its members for service on ships. These men, under Lt. A. H. Bubl, Commander of the Naval training school, were firemen, second class They spent four months in the machinists mates division, on shop mathematics and machine work. Upon completion of this course they were granted promotions, short leaves, and sea orders.
Win Petty Officer Rating
This program ended March 17 1944, with 2,724 men having completed the training. Of this total, 833 were graduated with petty officer ratings.
The naval training school then began preparing enlisted men for duty as electrician's mates. These trainees after four months of shop practice, electrical laboratory training, and mathematics, received the same recognition as their predecessors.
In the meantime, other military training programs had been established at the University. An army medical program began in May, 1943, and a similar navy program was set up in July of that year. The Navy V-12 began in June, '43; the ASTP and the army A-12 ran from August, 1943 until June, 1944.
Vets Start Returning
In October 1943, almost 2,000 students were enrolled in special war training programs which included machinists mate training, V-5, V-12 signal corps, army A-12, and ASTP, and aeronautical technician training. By March, 1945, World War II veterans were coming back to the campus, and 75 were enrolled for the semester starting then. In the same month, the navy designated the University for one of the 25 extra Naval Reserve Officers Training corps units. It will begin on the campus in about five weeks.
Military personnel on the Hill played a major part in campus affairs. They joined fraternities, backboned University athletics, kept up student activities, and bolstered many a lonely coed's "even booried morale."
Danforth Grants Another Fellow to K.U
For the second consecutive year the University has been granted a Danforth fellow by William H. Danforth of St. Lotis, Mo., in whose name the chapel is now being constructed on the campus.
Jeanne Ackley, of Columbus, Ohio, is the 1945 Danforth graduate fellow at the University and is one of 44 fellows appointed to serve in 1995-46.
Miss Ackley, with a major in radio speech and radio dramatics, is a graduate of Ohio State university where she was a member of Y.W.C.A. Wesley foundation, Inter-Racial council, and the University Student Religious council.
Miss Ackley will enroll in no courses here, but she is expected to participate in campus activities, particularly toward more advancement of the religious majors. Students. She will have an office on the campus convenient to student activities.
Three Culture Series Planned This Year
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Blanche Thebom, mezzo-soprano,
Dec. 4; the Ballet Theater, Jan. 17;
the Don Cossack chorus, Feb. 13;
Robert Casadesus, concert pianist,
March 20; and James Melton, tenor,
May 7 Season tickets are now on
sale at the Fine Arts office.
A third course designed to give a background for peace-time problems, will be the new "America at Peace" series, which will be presented at 8 p.m. on Tuesdays in Fraser theater. This course will run in two series, Oct. 16 to Jan. 22 and Feb. 19 to April 2, and will be open to the public.
Malott Opens Series
Chancellor Deane W. Malott will open the series on Oct. 16, speaking on "The United States and the United Nations."
The series wil continue as follows:
Oct. 30, "Natural Resources; Their Relations to War and Peace," Frank Stockton, dean of the School of Business; Nov. 20, "The United States and the Soviet Union," Hilden Gibson, associate professor of social and political science; Dec. 11, "Is the United States part of an Atlantic Community of Nations?" F. E. Melvin, associate professor of history; Jan. 8, "Our Relations with Latin America," W. H. Shoemaker, professor of romance languages; Jan. 22, "The United States and the Pacific: Two Views," H. B. Chubb, professor of political science and W. W. Davis, professor of history; Feb 19, "The American Farm Problem," John Ise, professor of economics; Mar. 5, "Promoting Full Employment." Leslie Waters, associate professor of economics; Mar. 19, "What is the Prospect of Labor-Management, Relations?" Leland J. Pritchard, associate professor of business; and April 2, "One World and the Middle Way," Walter Sandelius, professor of political science.
"God Save the King" was first publicly sung in 1746 in honor of the capture of Porto Bello from the Spanish.
TONITE
VARSITY
"NATIONAL BARN DANCE"
2nd Feature
"HENRY and DIZZY"
100 in Band (continued from page one)
2nd Feature
Belle Karner, Norma Lee Dudley,
Jo Ann Longwell, Yvonne Alston,
Virginia Roesler.
FRIDAY - SATURDAY
ROY ROGERS in
"SILVER SPURS"
2nd Feature
William Gargan Ann Savage in "Midnight Manhunt"
Cornets; Walter Babcock, Leroy Goering, Dorothy Brenner. Joe Suboda, Reva Jean Dwyer, Roy Duffens, Patrick Thiessen, Marvin Clark, Melvin P. Rice, Billy Hamilton, Harry P. Lees, Carl Metz, Clara Blake, E bill Egen, Roland Dean Brooks.
French Horns: James Flottman, Bob Fountain, Donald Livingston, Dorothy Norris, Jeanette Perkins, Mary Ann Sawyer, Carolee Sproull, Alvin Haggard, Martha Jewett, Patricia Harris.
Baritones: Robert H. Fry, Jean Hatch, David Lawson, Marjorie Lee Skeen, Shirley Wellborn, Warren Marshall.
Trombones: Arnold Englund, James Webster, Bonnie Stock, Annetta Stout, John Weatherwax, Richard Akers, Clarice Beaver
Tubas: Constance Cultra, Dorothy Norris, Emily Schnabel, Paul Adams.
Field Drum Major: Robert Lasnier.
Percussion: Betty Lou Cowan
Bettie Jane Barkis, Esther Calnin
Jean Lambert, Charles Werhan
Genevieve Wunsch.
About 17,000 farm dwellers are killed in accidents yearly.
Twirlers: Betty Cowan, Leatha Sanford, Dorothy Higginbottom, Glenda Luhring.
Relieved of Command
LT. A.B. COPPING
Students Clamor For More Rooms
Although 40 rooms have been volunteered and two new dormitories have been added to those operated for University women students, calls still are coming in for more rooms, Miss Marie Miller, assistant adviser of women, said yesterday.
The greatest appeal is for accommodations within a few blocks of the University, Miss Miller declared.
Many requests for rooms and apartments now are being received from upperclassmen, faculty members, graduate students, and young married couples, Miss Miller said. This situation may be relieved if defense workers begin to leave this area, she added.
GILKERSON'S CAFE
Welcomes Students, New and Old
Come to Gilkerson's For Those HOMEMADE MEALS YOU MISS
TODAY
ENDS
SATURDAY
GRANADA
OWL SHOW Saturday Night SUNDAY
ONE ENTIRE WEEK
INTERNATIONAL PICTURES PRESENTS GARY LORETTA COOPER·YOUNG
"Along Came Jones"
WILLIAM DEMAREST
DAN DURYEA
FRANK SULLY
A CINEMA ARTS CORP. PRODUCTION
Produced by
Gary Copper
Churches to Entertain At Receptions Friday
Directed by STUART HEISLER
new film By Henry Johnson - An INTERNATIONAL PICTURE
Released by RRO RADIO PICTURES, INC.
Lawrence, churches will welcome new students and greet old ones at the receptions scheduled for Friday night. Programs, mixer games, and refreshments have been planned.
The Newman club will entertain Catholic students in the Kansas room of the Memorial Union building at 8 o'clock. Dancing will be part of the program. Receptionists will be Frances Maloney, Kathryn Maloney, Francis Kocourek, Bernard Domann, Bolivar Marquez, and Laura Schmid,
Baptist students will meet in the church parlor, 801 Kentucky street at 8 p.m., according to the Rev. Charles W. Thomas. Lutherans will gather in the social room of the church at 1245 New Hampshire St., at 8 p.m., Margaret Gruenthal, student president said. Other parties scheduled for 8 p.m. are the First Methodist church, 946 Vermont St., and at the Episcopal parish house, 1011 Vermont street.
The Rev. Warren Hile has announced a reception at the First Christian church, 1000 Kentucky St., at 7:30 p.m. Presbyterian students will also meet at 7:30 in the base-ment of the church at 901 Vermont street.
Peace Conference Plans Materialize
The committee will meet next week to form further plans for the conference.
The University's miniature peace conference will be held this semester according to present plans, Robert Spencer, chairman of the student conference committee, said this morning.
Conference plans were started in April by the Student Religious council before the ending of the European war. The conference was postponed until this semester to include the entire University.
JAYHAWKER NOW!---Ends Saturday "JUNIOR MISS" PEGGY ANN GARNER
"will laugh your heads off!" . . sez Winchell. And you will too! . . say we.
Dana ANDREWS • jeanne CRAIN
Dick HAYMES • vivian BLAINE
Music by RICHARD KODGERS
Lyrics and Screen Play by
USCAR HAMMERSTEIN II
20.
SUNDAY Entire Week